Friday, September 21, 2012

Mission and Values

This post is
long past due, and perhaps should have been the first post I made. Better late
than never, I suppose. I’m not sure whether many will read it, but I feel it’s
necessary to put it out there.

Men: overrepresented among the most brutal, filthy, and deadly jobs

I am an
advocate for equality for men and boys. Some people call me an advocate for men and boys, an
advocate for gender equity in education, or a men’s rights activist (or an MRA
for short). My online name is TCM, which stands for “The Common Man,” which is
indicative of the focus of the Men’s Movement on the inequities
disproportionately facing men and boys at the bottom of society, such as men’s
overrepresentation among prisons (~90%), military deaths (98%), suicides (80%),
workplace fatalities (93%), homelessness (85%), illness, school dropouts and under-enrollments,
and others. My specialization is education issues.

Mission
and Values:

·Educate the public on the issues and
needs of men and boys, especially in academic matters.

·Advocate the ideals of equality and
social justice, question the assumptions of traditional gender roles that are
limiting and harmful to men and boys, and compliment the current discourse on
gender equality.

·Take a stand against the phenomenon of
misandry – sexism against men and boys.

·Advocate a philosophy of
non-violence.

·Advocate the end of the zero-sum
approach to gender equity by stressing that for every women’s issue there is a
men’s issue, and that both sexes deserve our compassion and support.